Ok, I was screwing around the internets reading about cat behaviours and such when I decided to look up tuxedo kitties on Wikipedia, since my Missy Kat is a cow cat. The actual entry is “Bicolour Cats” and this illustration is used:
Mmkay, does anyone else think that this looks like a bunch of cow cat rugs?? LOL
We told Missy Kat that we needed to squish her flat to see which markings she has… She was not amused. (She is “Tuxedo”, btw.)
This is by far the most disturbing illustration I’ve seen on Wiki! It obviously did not occur to the person who put this together that this looks like Cow Cat rugs… But it sure does to me!
BWAH HAHAHAHA!
Not to mention that the names sound like names for types of furcoat. Well, ok , yeah, i guess they are *fur coats*, but you know what i mean. ;-)
I was just commenting to a friend today about these types of cats, and how 9 times out of ten, when i see a cat roaming in atlanta, it looks like that. I read an article once about decendants of stray-turned-feral dogs on islands, and how they, after many generations of mixing with each other, tend to all look like one completely different, short , brown composite breed (no matter which island, or how isolated from the mainland). Zoologists reckon that through natural selection, they are mixing back to looking how the earliest dogs looked. I’ve been wondering if this is the case with all of the bicolor cats running around.
I think youd have an easier time squishing DJ flat hed just lie there and puurr.
Dave, that is *exactly* what I was thinking! LOL Missy was like, “you squish me like that and I’ll CHOMP you!” When I asked Deej if he’d care, he just purred. Heh. That’s my Squish!
V, I don’t think so, simply because there seem to be more stripey cats than cow cats – to me, anyway. When you consider that our domestic kitties are supposedly kin to Tigers, then the stripeys would make sense. But perhaps the whole bicolour thing *is* the result of the divergence then convergence of so many breeds?… Interesting thought. :-)
The ones i see have stripey saddles…
yeah, it think its like the same reason that sharks are colored like they are ; prey looking up sees “the sky” and prey looking down sees “the ground” . Smallish wild cats, like the ocelot, tend to spend a lot of time in the trees, and im assuming the spots look a bit like sunlight through leaves, to something looking down.